Mario Biondi Knihy

Vo Viedni devätnásteho storočia sa odohráva dráma lásky, osudu a vôle na pozadí intelektuálnych prúdov, ktoré budú definovať celú éru. Josef Breuer, jeden zo zakladateľov psychoanalýzy, je na vrchole svojej kariéry. Jedného z najväčších európskych filozofov Friedricha Nietzscheho trápia samovražedné myšlienky, nenachádza liek na bolesti hlavy a ďalšie problémy, ktoré ho sužujú. Keď Breuer vyhovie prosbe Lou Salomé liečiť Nietzscheho svojou experimentálnou metódou založenou na rozhovore, ešte netuší, že aj on nájde v týchto stretnutiach útechu. Až vďaka tomu, že musí čeliť vlastným vnútorným démonom, dokáže talentovaný psychiater pomôcť svojmu pacientovi. V románe Keď Nietzsche plakal spája Yalom fakty a fikciu, atmosféru a napätie, aby odkryl nezabudnuteľný príbeh o sile myšlienok a priateľstva.

These richly hypnotic tales enfold the reader into Isaac Bashevis Singer's special world of imps, demons, lovers, and other mischievous creatures. His world is a world of feelings, driven by lust, lechery, greed, madness, and love. All of his creatures are seen with a clear but loving eye; all seem and are in fact possessed by good and evil, caught in fascinating dilemmas, now terrible, now wryly comic. Here is a dazzling new collection of stories from the fertile genius of Isaac Bashevis Singer, one of today's most entertaining and original writers. (from back cover)

Sean Courtney goes to South Africa in the late 19th century to begin farming.

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In 1860 Robyn Ballantyne and her brother return to Africa to search for their missing father and face the terrors of near certain death and the uncertainties of love in the heart of the Dark Continent

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/Faulkner Award Winner • A gripping, tragic, and densely atmospheric masterpiece of courtroom suspense—one that leaves us shaken and changed. "Haunting .... A whodunit complete with courtroom maneuvering and surprising turns of evidence and at the same time a mystery, something altogether richer and deeper." —Los Angeles Times San Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there can afford to make enemies. But in 1954 a local fisherman is found suspiciously drowned, and a Japanese American named Kabuo Miyamoto is charged with his murder. In the course of the ensuing trial, it becomes clear that what is at stake is more than a man's guilt. For on San Pedro, memory grows as thickly as cedar trees and the fields of ripe strawberries—memories of a charmed love affair between a white boy and the Japanese girl who grew up to become Kabuo's wife; memories of land desired, paid for, and lost. Above all, San Piedro is haunted by the memory of what happened to its Japanese residents during World War II, when an entire community was sent into exile while its neighbors watched.

Dej románu, sústredený na tri až štyri dni, sa odohráva v druhom roku občianskej vojny v Španielsku. Američan Robert Jordan, univerzitný profesor španielčiny, člen medzinárodnej brigády, je poverený dôležitou úlohou, ktorá má zaistiť úspech chystanej republikánskej ofenzíve. Pracuje v tylenepriateľa ako diverzant a plní svoju úlohu, aj keď sa presvedčil o jej nezmyselnosti. Na charakteroch niekoľkých republikánov, s ktorými sa hrdina románu stretáva pri zabezpečovaní akcie, je zobrazené celé vtedajšie revolučné Španielsko so všetkými problémami, úspechmi aj zmätkami. Autor sa sám zúčastnil ako korešpondent občianskej vojny v Španielsku na strane republikánov.

Lloyd from Leith has a transfiguring passion for the unhappily married Heather. Together they explore the true nature of house music and chemical romance. Will their ardour fizzle and die or will it ignite and blaze like a thousand suns? Ecstasy follows them and others through the backstreets of Edinburgh, stifling suburban sitting rooms and the bright lights of London. Exhilarating and dazzling, this is Welsh at his very best.

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. 8vo pp. 352 Rilegato tela, sovracoperta (cloth, dust jacket) Ottimo (Fine)